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Weary glassmakers head home after morning shift.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent
Unusually for one of Mitchell and Kenyon's 'factory gate' films, the girls and young women here seem most fascinated by the camera, stopping and staring while their male counterparts hurry past with little more than a slight smile. The exception is a rather grubby, undernourished young lad, who looks old and wizened before his time, who dashes back and forth to make the most of his screen debut.
Non-Fiction 1900 3 mins Silent Location: Chorley
Lancashire cotton-workers pile out through the mill gates at dinner time.
Non-Fiction 1901 2 mins Silent Location: Droylsden
Workers in Edwardian Lancashire become ghostly thanks to an odd camera effect.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: Nelson
Lively Lancashire millworkers, including young boys and girls, at the mill gates.
Non-Fiction 1901 2 mins Silent
Where was this Edwardian paper works?
Non-Fiction 1901 4 mins Silent Location: Birmingham
A rich impression of a vibrant Midlands works, in an unusually elaborate 'factory gate' film.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: Ripley
Victorian ironworkers leave their Derbyshire factory in carefully stage-managed fashion.
Non-Fiction 1923 5 mins Silent Location: St Helens
Demonstrating care for the community in Lancashire.
Non-Fiction 1901 3 mins Silent Location: St Helens
Shift change at Edwardian Britain's most important glassmakers, at the heart of the Merseyside town.
Non-Fiction 1901 3 mins Silent Location: St Helens
Members of this Friendly Society stream past the camera.
Non-Fiction 1901 1 mins Silent Location: St Helens
The crowds at Knowsley Road await a Rugby league match between the Saints and the Lions.
Promotional 2019 10 mins
A wandering warrior dreams of a new form of expression, in this promo for UNKLE’s album The Road: Part II / Lost Highway Pt. II directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.
1935 16 mins
A rare glimpse of 1930s London in colour: the Thames has never looked lovelier.
Advert 1946 1 mins Silent
Life is looking up! The war is over and the “Corona” Man can visit his “Corona” families once more, door-to-door.
Advert 1962 0 mins Location: Rhyl
Cinema advertisement for Marine Lake & Ocean Beach, Rhyl, a popular destination for crowds set on a day's fun on free rides.
Advert 1942 7 mins Silent Location: Blaenau Ffestiniog
Who could deny these advertising claims: "Attractive hair is the ambition of every woman", and "Your family will enjoy Lincoln potatoes"?
Advert 1955 1 mins
Operatic chickens, shrimps and salmon sing-a-long with a paste pot chorus in this vibrantly animated advert for Shippam's
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